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Family Practice Vol. 16, No. 5, 543-544
© Oxford University Press 1999

Book Reviews

Comparative and cross-cultural health research.

Trisha Greenhalgh

Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy University College London and Royal Free School of Medicine, London

J Øvretveit. (196 pages, £19.95.) Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 1998. ISBN 1-85775-274-0.

"Research proves it—French are dirtier than us!" announced a front-page headline in the Sun newspaper a few months ago. The claim was based on two separate pieces of market research that appeared to show that the French consumed 40 per cent fewer bars of soap per head of population than the British.

As John Øvretveit argues in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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